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Revisiting Keynes :economic possibilities for our grandchildren
Leading economists revisit a provocative essay by John Maynard Keynes, debating Keynes's vision of growth, inequality, work leisure, entrepreneurship, consumerism, and the search for happiness in the twenty-first century.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262281331
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- 1 online resource (viii, 215 pages) :illustrations
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The letters of George Santayana.
Letters from the last years of Santayana's life, written as he completed Dominations and Powers, the final volume of his autobiography, and the one-volume abridgement of his early five-part masterwork, The Life of Reason.This final volume of Santayana's letters spans the last five years of the philosopher's life. Despite the increasing infirmities of age and illness, Santayana continued to be r…
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- Santayana ed.
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- 9780262283014
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- 1 online resource (1 volume) :illustrations.
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Hypothesis A-Hypothesis B :Linguistic Explorations in Honor of David M. Perlm…
Essays reflecting the influence of the versatile linguist David M. Perlmutter, covering topics from theoretical morphology to sign language phonology. Anyone who has studied linguistics in the last half-century has been affected by the work of David Perlmutter. One of the era's most versatile linguists, he is perhaps best known as the founder (with Paul Postal) of Relational Grammar, but he has…
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- 9780262258807
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- 1 online resource (xxxvii, 491 pages) :illustrations.
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Foundational Issues in Linguistic Theory :Essays in Honor of Jean-Roger Vergn…
The essays in this volume attest to the importance of Verngaud's contribution to linguistics, particularly his influential work on foundational issues. The essays first discuss issues in syntax, documenting breakthroughs in the development of the principles and parameters framework.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262273152
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- 1 online resource (xxxii, 389 pages) :illustrations.
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The power of words in international relations :birth of an anti-whaling disco…
The role of discursive power in shaping international relations analysed through the lens of whaling politics.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262272384
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- 1 online resource (xii, 333 pages) :illustrations.
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Systematics as cyberscience :computers, change, and continuity in science
For all the use scientists make of computers in their work, we still know little about how computing affects their working methods and the knowledge they produce. Christine Hine explores these questions by examining the developing use of information technology in one discipline, systematics (the classification of organisims).OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262275408
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- 1 online resource (x, 307 pages) :illustrations.
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Fundamental tax reform :issues, choices, and implications
Papers presented at a conference held at the James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy at Rice University, in Apr. 2006.In this work, experts on tax policy examine the complex issues involved in fundamental tax reform, including the relative merits of income-based and consumption-based taxation. Other papers consider topics such as the effect of tax reform on businesses, especially on thei…
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- 9780262271707
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- 1 online resource (xx, 546 pages) :illustrations
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Far-fetched facts :a parable of development aid
Translated from the German.This is a fictionalized ethnographic study of development aid in sub-Saharan Africa that focuses on technologies of inscription in the interactions of development banks, international experts and local managers.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262255035
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- 1 online resource (xxvii, 235 pages) :illustrations.
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Global catastrophes and trends :the next 50 years
From the Publisher: Fundamental change occurs most often in one of two ways: as a "fatal discontinuity," a sudden catastrophic event that is potentially world changing, or as a persistent, gradual trend. Global catastrophes include volcanic eruptions, viral pandemics, wars, and large-scale terrorist attacks; trends are demographic, environmental, economic, and political shifts that unfold over …
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- 9780262283878
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- 1 online resource (xi, 307 pages) :illustrations, maps
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Value sensitive design :shaping technology with moral imagination
Using our moral and technical imaginations to create responsible innovations: theory, method, and applications for value sensitive design. Implantable medical devices and human dignity. Private and secure access to information. Engineering projects that transform the Earth. Multigenerational information systems for international justice. How should designers, engineers, architects, policy maker…
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- 9780262351690
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- 1 online resource (248 pages) :illustrations
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